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Not ready to pin our wide side woes on Carmichael ... with Johnson, Wild, and Fogg out and Knox playing steady reps for the first time, we are seriously raw on the field side.

2017-07-21 Winnipeg at BC Leggett, Johnson, and Fogg sidelined by injuries. Field side gaping.

2017-07-20 Edmonton at Hamilton (special guest haiku by Mrs. Johnzo!) Says Gary Peters, Hey ref! Don't pat my peter! Victim blaming flag. (Seriously, did no one see this but us?)

The Reinbold brawl ... check out Lui Passaglia gooning it up around thirty seconds in ...three bomber OL triple team Adam Rita at 0:55 ... some of the best blocking we saw from them during the 1997 season. Damn, I'm glad that Marty York is nowhere near CFL broadcasts anymore.

Just got my tickets. Second row behind the Bombers' bench. Never sat so close before.

I think the Als will slip back to Earth and Ottawa will squeak out a win. Didn't Thigpen's big return day came against the Bombers too? Wasn't that the day when only a restraining order could have saved Glenn from Phil Hunt?

2017-07-15 BC at Hamilton (supplemental) Was that the sound of Kent Austin's championship window slamming shut?

2017-07-15 BC at Hamilton I didn't watch it. Throw Long Bannatyne and Mark said it was garbage.

Is the Hamilton / BC game worth watching? I've watched the first quarter, it looks like a decent game so far tho I know that BC comes back to win ... just hate to not close out my fourth week of game haikus but man time is short these days.

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Yeah, the yaretv service is perfect for a month abroad in Indonesia.

2017-07-14 Calgary at Montreal Bo Levi pregame: Finds a phone booth and takes off his Superman suit. Fumble, then meltdown, then disqualification. Puts "mess" in Messam.

2017-07-14 Ottawa at Edmonton Redblack shopping trip: Go out to the dollar store, bring ninety-five cents.

that single word second line, that's some baller haiku right there.

I'm going to this game! Any other mbbers gonna be there?

gah! another review. Use time to compose haiku, or go to the john.

2017-07-13 Toronto at Winnipeg (official) Harris, running hard. second, third, fourth, fifth efforts. Human stump puller.

yeah, seemed like Westerman started to come around last night ... he had a couple offsides, but I don't recall any real boner penalties like he had vs. Saskatchewan. And it looked like Ray didn't have room to wander unless the play call moved the pocket. Plus, a sack!

Loved how Lapo's playcalling neutralized that scary Toronto pass rush last night.

2017-07-13 Toronto at Winnipeg (supplemental) Zebras not content to merely ruin the game #whataboutkaren Seriously, you guys, get to your twitters and put some heat on Safeway and the league. Make 'em make it right.

yeah, you're right. that was a hell of a fingertip tackle. Man my memory's bad, and I don't even have the gin to blame.

I agree with you in the large, but man, I'm wondering about Westerman. I can overlook the lack of sacks, those come and go in bunches ... but I think back to that Saskatchewan game, how Kevin Glenn repeatedly escaped contain. When Kevin Glenn is extending plays with his feet like that, something's broken. And I say that as someone who thinks a lot more of Glenn than most on this board.

Please Bombers don't lose! I can't handle another fifty Bear Woods posts.

Butler incoming! Mr. Bryant, please raise the deflector shields.

My position on low-skilled American immigration is this: the criminalization of low-skill immigration actually makes low-skill immigrants more attractive to hire, because it's a lot harder to enforce labor laws on behalf of people who are in the country illegally. From a humanitarian standpoint I favor bringing those folks in from the cold because it'll make it easier to regulate their employers -- paradoxically making immigrants less competitive with native-born labor. So you have immigrants who have recourse when they're exploited and native-born labor that's more competitive. Seems win-win to me. But my understanding of these things isn't super comprehensive and I doubt things are as simple as I see them. We're going to have more and more surplus labor in Western countries as the robots take over and adding more through immigration is going to make that problem harder to deal with it (I remember our brief discussion of the basic minimum income experiment that's happening in t-bay.) So it's complicated.